A paedophile sacked by a Christian publishing company after being convicted of sexually abusing a four-year-old girl is suing his employers for unfair dismissal.The claim by Geoffrey Moore, whose case will be heard by an employment tribunal next month, was described as "absurd" by a children's charity yesterday.
Moore, 65, avoided jail in May after admitting five offences of indecency with the girl and one of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. He was given a three-year community rehabilitation order, put on the sex offenders' register for five years and banned from working with children for life.
The day after the hearing, Moore, who is married with two children, was sacked by Kevin Mayhew Publishers, a firm in Buxhall, Suffolk, which specialises in hymn books and religious music. He is now claiming unfair dismissal.
When Moore, of Hightown Green, Suffolk, was arrested in November, he was allowed to keep his job. Mr Mayhew said: "As a Christian organisation, we did not think it would be fair on his wife or children to dismiss him." Instead he agreed to resign if he was sent to jail, but was sacked after the details of his offences were revealed, Mr Mayhew added.
Michelle Elliot, director of the children's charity Kidscape, said: "If abusing a four-year-old girl is not grounds for dismissal, I do not know what is."
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$20 says the ACLU will be on Moore's side.
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